Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 13

Was he, perhaps, dreaming of working in the little flower garden behind the high street wall?

Who acts: Hong · What happens: be, dream, work · To what, where: Hong

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hong), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 he	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dreaming	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dreaming	punct
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 dreaming	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dreaming	punct
6	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 working	mark
8	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dreaming	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garden	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 garden	amod
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 garden	compound
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	obl
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wall	det
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wall	amod
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wall	compound
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dreaming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Hong		tree rules
2	dream	gerund	Hong		perhaps property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	work	gerund	Hong not said here		behind the high street wall; in the little flower garden	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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